“No matter the circumstances that you may be going through, just push through it.”

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Daddy wasn’t there for me, so I had to grind every day.

My game is me. I didn’t try to pattern my game after nobody.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

Who knows what the future holds? It’s all on parenting, one way or another. I don’t care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.

Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.

There’s some things you can cover up. And there’s some things you can’t.

In any war who pulls their general out? No one.

I wasn’t the biggest, the fastest, the strongest, and then I bought into something called work ethic.

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it’s damn near impossible to turn this around.

I don’t know a man on this Earth who can outwork me.

I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.

Everything I got, I’m willing to sacrifice.

I’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.

The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

I figured something out. And it is no secret what I figured out. Whatever the majority of people were doing, I found myself doing the opposite. I wanted to chase something great.

It’s never fun when we’re in the midst of the storm. But when we land someplace we know we never could have found on our own, it is a beautiful thing.

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, ‘I let go and I’m going to let the cards fall where they fall; For a #‎ controlfreak , it’s hard.

God does not send us despair in order to kill us; he sends it in order to awaken us to new life.

And you think compassion’s a flaw And you’ll never let it show and you’re sure you’ve hurt in a way that no one will ever know.